I started watching six feet under. Seems very promising so far, it's nice to see Michael C Hall not surrounded by hacks.

GoT is very good but it also suffers a bit from having the plot split into so many pieces, especially in later seasons, which generally means each plot has a pretty small timeframe to really develop each episode.

If anything the I'd think Todd's uncle was the rival cowboy since he sort of stole the meth. So it's probably a little more contained in the finale than that video suggests. But then the finale isn't exactly a standalone thing so.

Point is that song owns and if anyone says "Yo I'm making this series that's pretty much based on a Marty Robbins song." they should get the greenlight by default.

Gus also fits somewhat as the rival cowboy, but yeah the finale is the only place where it obviously plays out in a way that is very close to the lyrics of the song (and it wouldn't surprise me if Gilligan never thought about the song in relation to the series until Granite State or even the finale), but it still fits quite well into the series as a whole in terms of Walt's feelings towards the whole methmaking thing, even if that was most likely more of a happy coincidence.

Although there's a short snippet of lyrics that's cut from the version in the video that coincides quite well with hanks death and the Ozymandias episode:

Just for a moment I stood there in silence,Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done.Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there,I had but one chance and that was to run.

Yeah it's pretty crazy how little in the show was ever actually planned in advance outside of "walt gradually becomes the bad guy". It's a testament to the talent of the writers that everything didn't completely fall appart towards the end.

visiting the grandma like I do every year, and we bring up TV shows at dinner. On an off shot I ask her if she's seen or heard of Breaking Bad. Apparently she marathon'd it from the first episode all the way to the last one

It's hard to make predictions because there's a distinct lack of status quo going on so far. Like, as soon as something is introduced as a story element, it stops being a thing two episodes or so later. Not a bad thing, but waaay different from most other works in a serial format.

I suppose it might also be a consequence of its debut coinciding with the writers' strike.